Collection items

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century

In the Middle Ages, manuscripts necessary for the Mass formed part of a church’s most important treasures, together with...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

François-Roger de Gaignières (b. 1642, d. 1715) was an art collector and scholar who bequeathed his manusc...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

The scriptorium at Metz flourished under one of the illegitimate sons of Charlemagne, Drogo, who was bishop from 826 to...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

The second volume of an illuminated Gospel-book produced in Metz (the first is now BnF Latin 11961), this manuscript ope...

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

The poem De Laudibus sancte crucis (In Praise of the Holy Cross) is the work of Hrabanus Maurus (b. 780/781, d. 856), on...

Manuscript Created date: 1060–1063

The Benedictine abbey of Saint-Germain-des-Prés was a wealthy centre of royal patronage and intellectual life jus...

Manuscript Created date: Early 11th century

St Maurus (d. 584) is one of the most famous disciples of St Benedict of Nursia (d. c. 550), the author of the Benedicti...

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

Texts devoted to the lives and miracles of different saints were collected and widely read during the medieval period. C...

Manuscript Created date: 2nd half of the 11th century

From its foundation in the seventh century, the abbey of St Bertin in St Omer was one of the most powerful abbeys in the...

Manuscript Created date: Mid-11th century

During the 11th and the 12th centuries, a new kind of text appeared for use in the liturgy – the Missal, which combined ...

Manuscript Created date: 1st half of the 11th century

The lives of two important early saints, Sts Martin and Benedict, have been copied together in this volume dating from t...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th century

From the early Middle Ages onwards many monasteries produced libelli (small books), each of which contained the life of...

Manuscript Created date: 4th quarter of the 11th century

Saints’ Lives or Vitae sanctorum were a new and popular form of historical writing developed in Europe in the Middle Age...

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